"Programming standards are a complete waste of time. A bunch of guys sit in a room arguing for days about placement of opening and closing brackets and then no one follows the standard anyhow. Just get a decent pretty print program and format the source the way you like it when you work on it and expect everyone else to do the same and don't waste time on coding standards."
Wait a second. The RIAA wants to sell MORE CD's, not fewer CD's. Does Cactus make you want to buy a CD?
Cactus and Macrovision's system reinforce my desire to avoid purchasing CD's. And it increases my desire to trade music MP3's freely with my friends. I doubt that's the intent of the folks at RIAA, Sony, or other music publishing companies.
After Napster, look for the RIAA to start attacking MP3 distribution by requesting via the court system, the right to monitor internet traffic at specific ISP's and Universities so they may detect and report the transmission of MP3 files.
The natural response by the MP3 music pirates will be to PGP encode MP3's prior to transmission.
Maybe they could infer strongly enough from the movement of large blocks of encrypted data between college kids that MP3's are involved and get a search warrant.
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One of the wisest programmers I know said:
"Programming standards are a complete waste of time. A bunch of guys sit in a room arguing for days about placement of opening and closing brackets and then no one follows the standard anyhow. Just get a decent pretty print program and format the source the way you like it when you work on it and expect everyone else to do the same and don't waste time on coding standards."
Wait a second. The RIAA wants to sell MORE CD's, not fewer CD's. Does Cactus make you want to buy a CD?
Cactus and Macrovision's system reinforce my desire to avoid purchasing CD's. And it increases my desire to trade music MP3's freely with my friends. I doubt that's the intent of the folks at RIAA, Sony, or other music publishing companies.
After Napster, look for the RIAA to start attacking MP3 distribution by requesting via the court system, the right to monitor internet traffic at specific ISP's and Universities so they may detect and report the transmission of MP3 files.
The natural response by the MP3 music pirates will be to PGP encode MP3's prior to transmission.
Maybe they could infer strongly enough from the movement of large blocks of encrypted data between college kids that MP3's are involved and get a search warrant.